Who Really Runs The Senate?
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Just another example of Harry Reid being Mitchslapped around the Senate Floor, in a review of the more than 300 votes that have been cast in the Senate this year, Harry Reid voted with Mitch McConnell 60% of the time.
So, who is the real Senate leader?
Consider this an open thread.
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They include legislative and procedural votes.
You do realize that whenever anything fails the Majority Leader always switches their vote so as to be able to recall the bill at a later time right? Worthless comparison here....
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The man is just so cagey with the procedure. Wow.
Erick said it included procedural and legislative votes. So Dems propose an amendment it gets shot down but Reid votes No, and another version, and another, until finally the wording gets passed 51-49. He just earned himself a 75+% voting record with Mitch but it got passed! You see why I don't think this is a meaningful comparison since it proves nothing. You could have artificially high or low numbers and I wouldn't be able to tell what to make of it. Heck after all the early votes to pass all the leftover spending bills plus all the post offices naming bills I bet their voting together percentage was much higher after the first 3 months.
Reid, however, has been terrible at getting things passed. That's a totally valid observation, but the voting together % isn't needed to make that case since it is useless. Just argue the lack of accomplishments. Frist sucked too as I think we can all agree. However Reid was the architect of that. Did he somehow flounder and/or become an idiot? I doubt it. I think it's the nature of the new simple filibuster being used all the time by both sides and the fact that so many anti-war votes have taken place. If you got 41 senators behind you the opposition is stuck on anything besides spending bills which inevitably need to get passed.
...prove anything with that vote comparison. It's just a humorous statistical side show in the circus of Reid's incompetence. An Open Thread fluffer, as they say.
60% of the time McConnell votes with Reid, thus making it look like McConnell is just doing what Reid says? At least this would be the case if were looking at the same votes.
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...and then you'd have to explain why the Democrats have only passed...
Hmm. What have they passed this year? - That we didn't also want them to, that is.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
I think they named a post office, or federal building somewhere after a democrat party member. Does that count?
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to hold 45 to 46 seats next year this will be a much different conversation. Just imagine the payback he will have saved up.
X 10 if we get Hillary.
This said open thread so ...
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Darn it, I thought my eyesight was getting better.
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I presume they are going to vote the same whenever it's found that some federal asset in WV was mistakenly not named after Robert C. Byrd. Do the 300 votes include things like that or only actual important votes?